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July 15, 2025 45 mins
Alecia goes back to her love of old Hollywood (and fun facts) to share the history and legacy of Jayne Mansfield. Jayne was often compared to and held as a rival against Marilyn Monroe for her influence in the film and modeling industry until her tragic death in 1967... Long live the Cleavage Queen <3

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Resources for this weeks episode: 
HBO Documentary – My Mom Jayne 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayne_Mansfield 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jayne-Mansfield 
https://texasarchive.org/2019_01288 
https://people.com/tv/mariska-hargitay-commemorates-late-mom-jayne-mansfield-on-what-wouldve-been-her-90th-birthday/ 
 
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Twisted humans.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Do you find yourself wanting to know more about the
latest murder, conspiracy, cult, or haunting.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Than this is the podcast for you.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm Alicia and I'm Sierra and this is Twisted and Uncorked. Hello,
and welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast. This
is episode two zero three. Being in the two hundreds
still a settling in for me in terms of episode numbers.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Saying too much for me? Two two two three, it
is two o three. But oh that one's good.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay, I apologize that was not like me. Hold on
the siren is passing fucking rude? Yeah, that was unlike me.
But what is like me is this week's episode. And
we love fun facts on our show, and today's story
stems from a fun fact in itself that I found
and it also pairs with my love of old Hollywood.

(01:03):
Hint hint. But before we get into that, Sierra, do
you have a fun fact for me? For two one
hundred and three.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I do have a fun fact. It is about the moon.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
So I was watching this thing the other day that
was talking about moon living or whatever, you know, like
people have been talking about eventually the moon, not like currently,
but like eventually talks of it. Yeah, so there's this
scroll on YouTube that I found. I don't even know
her name, honestly, but she takes ideas that are popular

(01:41):
in the world and breaks it down for you. So
when everybody was talking about living and colonizing Moon, she's like, well,
this is how it would actually happen. Blah blah blah.
So anyway, what I learned is the Moon is basically Canada,
not exactly. That's what she said, and it made me laugh,
and that's why I wanted to tell it to you.
But so, the temperatures on the Moon, on the surface

(02:04):
of the Moon fluctuate between two hundred and sixty degrees
fahrenheit or one twenty six celsius two negative to eighty
fahrenheit or negative one seventy three celsius, which is insane.
If we were to actually live on the surface of
the Moon, we would have to live in these basically iglus. Funny,

(02:28):
we were literally just talking about it glues off air
basically I glues that are temperature controlled and you could
never leave it ever, Like if you went outside, there's
a chance you would either burn to death or freeze
to death instantly.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
However, feel like the equivalent of being outside of your spacesuit.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
However, there are caves, I mean yes, but yeah, anyway,
there are caves on the Moon that scientists have discovered
with rovers and being to the Moon and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Where, Yes, I did there quoe for non YouTube watchers,
Sierra just air bundied.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
That because no one knows. Okay, it's stressed. Yeah for
certain Yeah, anyway, there are caves though, and the temperatures
in the caves stay around sixty three fahrenheit or seventeen celsius,
which is the perfect temperature. When the temperatures in the
caves do fluctuate, they go up a little.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
And down.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Kind of a lot, but mostly a little. Basically, temperatures
that Canada gets is the temperatures inside of the cave,
which is awesome because then the at least the igloo
thing wouldn't have to be temperature controlled.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
You know, there were playing on the stereotypes of Canada
that we all live exactly vers so that's really interesting. Actually,
I think live in a cave on thee.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
I would live in a cave on the Moon.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
As long as I got to like bring electronics with
me so I could still look at the ocean. I
believe like trees that make me feel.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
About their days are about fifteen No, I think it's
five five earth days long something like that. Too long,
if you ask me, that's a lot of hours to
not sleep.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
That is a lot of hours, but I get so
much more done.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
It is fifteen fifteen earth days. Oh yeah, that's far
too But then nights are fifteen earth nights, so.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
So then do you sleep for that long? Does your
body know that it's fifteen earth nights?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Dude? Okay, wait, if fifteen earth days is one day
and fifteen earth nights is one night, one full day
night is a month long, that's insane, mind blown.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
I have so many questions to the age of the
same Stewie. Does your body know that it's that long?
Would you would just eventually kind of like you know,
time differences. I just I have questions. I have so
many questions.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
I have a lot of questions too.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Today's episode is canceled and we will be googling the moon.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Yes, google the moon.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Let us.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I do want to know what your fun fact is.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
My fun fact I learned by listening to and that's
why we drink this week m the King of fun Vacs.
One might say, other than us covered hug and Molly
this week, and naturally, Seer and I are very familiar
with hugg and Molly, so I sent them pictures of
us in Alabama at the diner all that stuff, and

(05:50):
they're like, Oh, that's super cool. Anyways, not the point.
They were trying to figure out why Molly is called
huggin mollie, and Mollie was in the that was given
to women that immigrated from European countries that really didn't
have a name, like it was just like given to
them because it was like a catch all kind of

(06:13):
for women. Like but yes, but I am also proposed
that it came from the fact that huggin the mollie
is a slang term or saying for like riding close
to the rails so that you don't get squished. It's
called hug in the mollie.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
I've never heard of that before.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I'd never heard of that either, but apparently it's the
thing in the US and it started becoming more popular
when you know, like train hopping was a popular mode
of transportation and sometimes you would have to duck down
real close, either to a wall, or whatever surface so
that you didn't get squished by a train, and it
was called hug in the Mollie when that happened. So

(06:59):
because hug and Molly hugs you so tight, maybe that's why.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Maybe that is interesting.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
So that is my fun fact and shout out thank you.
I love the theory behind the name. It really checks out.
And I also love the color pink, which is why
I chose this week's episode. Well, not why I chose
this week's drink, but it works out in this little
transition of mine. So today we have a pink drink.

(07:29):
If you are not familiar with the pink drink, Sierra,
would you like to let our listeners know what pink
drink is?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Oh dude, okay, you guys, I swear. I took a
picture and it was pretty. This thing was rock candy
at one point, and there was a lot of it.
It went all the way up to hear. Okay, this
entire red stick was full of rock candy. Since it's
been sitting in my drink, it has slowly dissolved. Okay,
now it's all in my drink anyway. A pink drink

(07:59):
is when it's from the Starbucks Secret Menu but they
finally put it on the real menu because duh, it's great.
But it's a strawberry refresher from Starbucks with coconut milk
to make it kind of creamy. However, Starbucks can probably
eat a dick. I'm not sure if they did anything
terrible lately, but whatever, I have a hack. So if

(08:22):
you buy white cram strawberry juice from Ocean Spray and
mix it with coconut milk, you have a pink drink. However,
I didn't mix mine with coconut milk to day because
I didn't have any coconut milk and I couldn't find
it at the grocery store. I mixed mine with sugar

(08:44):
free or zero sugar vanilla coffee creamer, and holy cow,
this is like a strawberry Subert in my cup. It
might be better than a pink drink, and it has
nothing to do with these rock candy No.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Now, her pink drink might be pink syrup both. It
might be we'll stay tuned for that. The reason I
chose this recipe was because my original choice, which is
the favorite beverage of the person that I'm going to
be talking about today, was called a pink lady, And
for those who are not bartenders or cocktail lovers, pink

(09:24):
lady is traditionally dry gin apple jack, bourbon, lemon juice, grenadine,
an egg white, and a cherry to garnish. And when
you put it all together, it looks like a little
pink Martini with a little bit foam on top. I
don't know what it is about drinks with egg whites
in them, but they really give me the ick. So

(09:47):
I made a version of that, and I told Sierra,
because she wasn't drinking, to just make a pink drink
so that she could at least enjoy what she was drinking.
So I did instead of gin, I did wine, I
did blended strawberries. I did coconut cream and freshly screamed

(10:09):
orange juice and a tablespoon of honey. And it is
quite delightful. So it is not at all the drink
that is paying homage here, but it tastes way better.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
It sounds amazing. I have never had a pink Lady.
I have never had a drink that has egg whites
in it. I've a million times, I've never tried it,
and it.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Freaks me out. It freaks me out. There was a
lavender haze martini at a restaurant I went to that
had egg white in it, and I was like, but
that sounds so good other than the egg white.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I obviously I'm not drinking, and I plan on not
drinking at least for a year. I just want to
see what happens when I don't drink for a year.
But if I deem that not much changes, which so
far not much has changed for me personally because I
don't drink very often anyway. But I'm still giving it

(11:09):
a full year anyway. After that, that is one of
the drinks that I will have to try because I
just want to know.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I just want to know she's gonna try with pink ladies. Well,
part of why I was trying to be cheeky is
because grenadine is disgusting. For those that don't know what
grenadine is, it's what's in a Shirley temple with orange
juice that gives it that little pink Q.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
I did not know that I definitely have grenadine.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I think grenadine is so gross, and I definitely thought
that it was supposed to be strawberry flavored. It's not.
It's supposed to be pomegranite cherry, as we learned before this,
So my rendition of this drink really doesn't make any sense.
But it's still pink and pasty, So we.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Just changed everything else about it.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I have it in my conductor glass'll episode two o one,
so I had to bust it out just for you guys,
And I made a strawberry hard. I was trying to
be a cute barden under I even blended my strawberries
so they didn't look like a crime scene this time.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Did you take a good picture, No, it's all for nothing.
It's all for not.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Did you take a photo? Of course I did, and
that's all the matter. Yeah, but yours looks good. For one.
I know it's so good. I started drinking it on
my walk from my kitchen to my desk.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Mine was so good half of it.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, I was gonna say every episode that we record lately,
so here is like a few minutes late because her
entire family wants whatever cocktail she's made.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Yes, that's exactly what happens, because I'm making mocktails. Now
my kids know.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
That they're not giving her children alcohol.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Let's be clarify here here, and it's trying to me crazy.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
You're really going to have to give them fair warning though,
when you do start drinking, right, so everyone knows this
one's off limits.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, No, I made it, and Bubba, of course, is like,
what's that? And I took a drink and my eyes
got really wide, and I was like, I don't even
want to let you try this because it's really good
and I don't have time to make you one. And
he was like, I want to try it. So he
tried it and then he drank like half of it
and I was like, I'm not making you one though.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Before we finish drinking our drinks, we are going to
take a quick break and then we will be right
back to tell you about this week's episode. Today, I
will be telling you about the Life and Death of
Jane Mansfield.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Definitely thought you were going to say the Life and
Death Brigade, but I'm.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Sorry that I didn't. Jane Mansfield does not sound familiar
for once, Okay, I'm excited. So. She is best known
as being an archetypical blonde bombshell actress, and her career
took off after her role in the movie The Girl
Can't Help it in nineteen fifty six. She also worked

(14:07):
as a playboy model, and this maybe why she's famous,
but it isn't why her name is remembered today necessarily.
Jane Mansfield was born Vera Jane Palmer to Herbert and
Vera at the Brinn Marr Hospital in Pennsylvania on April nineteenth,
nineteen thirty three.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Can I just say that Vera or Vera is like
one of my favorite names. I get your name name
it is?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
So that is her first name, and she was the
only child of this couple, and she wanted for very
little when she was growing up, coming from a well
to do background. Her father was also a lawyer before
his sudden death in nineteen thirty six.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Also, you said her mom's name was Vera. Also yes, Ena,
So when you started, I thought you were going to
talk about the life of death brigade, which is Gilmagirl's.
And then we have a mom who's named after sure,
I mean a daughter who's named after her mom, which
is also very gimmlar girl. I'm so happy that I'm
feeling it. I'm feeling it today.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
No, and this becomes a common theme amongst these women
naming no children and Her father was a lawyer before
his sudden death in nineteen thirty six. He died of
a heart attack while driving when Jane was just three
years old and she was in the car.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Jesus, what a trauma.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
Right, Thankfully, you only remember memories mostly, you know, early
memories are around four or five, right, So thankfully, and
as we know, it is tough for a woman to
be unmarried during these times, especially as a single mother.
So Vera remarried in nineteen thirty nine to a sales
engineer named Henry Lawrence Peers. And just to avoid any confusion,

(15:53):
I will be referring to Jane Mansfield as Jane for
the rest of this episode because her mom's name is
also Vera, And you know, the new family moved to Dallas,
Texas and fell right into step together. Jane dreamed of
being the next Hollywood star, looking up to Shirley Temple,
which is funny because I mentioned Grenadine and Shirley Temple's earlier.

(16:14):
When she was twelve, she started taking dance lessons, and
while in high school, she played the violin and piano.
Not only was she musically talented, but she also picked
up languages very quickly. As well studying Spanish, German, and Italian.
When she was seventeen, Jane met Paul Mansfield at a
Christmas party in nineteen forty nine. Paul was twenty and

(16:37):
Jane seventeen, and the two hit it off immediately, so
well that they actually married on May sixth, nineteen fifty
just a few months later, and welcomed a baby girl,
who they named Jane Marie Mansfield on November eighth. It
was a shotgun wedding. That's okay, I'm the product of

(16:59):
the sh shotgun letting myself. Paul and Jane both enrolled
in school at the Southern Methodist University to study acting,
but they also decided that they were better as a team,
and Paul let Jane be the star while he worked
as her pr representative. I don't know why I said

(17:21):
it like that pr representative. The young couple balanced parenthood
classes and work together, but they, you know, they made
it work. In nineteen fifty one, they moved to Los
Angeles for more opportunity. Jane attended UCLA and she entered
the Miss California Concert contest, hiding that she was married

(17:43):
and was looking like she was actually on track to
win and whether it was jealousy or the fear of
getting caught, Paul made her dropout. Jane was accepted into
the University of Austin to study drama, so the two
would act. Actually end up moving back to Texas. Jane
didn't skip a beat though being out of Hollywood. She

(18:06):
worked as a nude art model, she sold bookstore to door,
and she worked at a dance studio. She also joined
a campus theater group called Curtain Call, which is such
a cute name. She and Paul also participated in many
local theater productions themselves. It was a theater family. When

(18:27):
Paul was called to serve in the Korean War, though,
the young family moved to Georgia and Jane and their
daughter would live at Camp Gordon there. At the end
of nineteen fifty three, when the war ended, the family
would move back to Texas, residing in Dallas, where she
studied acting for several more months at the Dallas Institute

(18:48):
of Performing Arts. Jane's mentor, Baruque Lumet, was also the
founder of the school and helped Jane get her first
screen test at Paramount in April nineteen fifty four. Maybe
you've heard.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Of it Okay, how old is she at this time, like.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Nineteen eighteen, nineteen twenty.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
What age did she get married?

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Seventeen?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Okay, everything happened so fast after marriage, It's.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
Like within three years of her being married, Paul was
called off to the war. So their daughter is around three,
Jane's around twenty ish, yeah, and she's going to university.
So she got her first screen test in April of
nineteen fifty four, and the family actually ended up moving
back to Los Angeles as a result to pursue the

(19:39):
career even further. She worked odd jobs to help support
the family, like selling treats at the movie theater and
teaching dance, and she also modeled Part ten. While Jane
didn't make it this first time around at Paramount, she
would eventually go on to perform in a sketch of

(19:59):
Joanah for them, and she also auditioned to work with
Warner Brothers, but seemed to fail to impress them as well.
She didn't want to play into the ditzy blonde role
that they were pushing her for. She was incredibly smart
and non I'm sorry, and as we know, with talents
and music and language. She insisted on playing a piano piece,

(20:21):
but they weren't interested.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
Had you love me some? Joan of arc though.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
Right great first opportunity at Paramount. Jane landed her first
official role on air with CBS in nineteen fifty four
on an episode of Angel Went a Wall. In it,
she played the piano and had a few speaking lines,
and in February of nineteen fifty five, she modeled as

(20:46):
Playboy's Playmate of the Month in February. She also post
in the calendar for February from nineteen fifty five to
nineteen sixty and would be featured in the magazine several
more times February. I don't know, but that is why
I put a heart on her. Sadly, there was too

(21:09):
much strain at this point on the Mansfield's marriage, and
Paul and Jane would divorce in August of nineteen fifty six.
Again Everything's happened super fast here, it is speculated that
Paul wasn't as supportive of Jane's acting career as he seemed.
Paul would go on to try and get full custody
of their daughter, claiming that Jane was an unfit mother

(21:32):
as a playboy model, which Sir Loblo Paul did not
gain custody of their daughter and would later remarry and
pretty much stop contact with Jane and his daughter. None
of this slowed Jane down, though, and her film career
would skyrocket.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
So if he can't ruin the mom's life by taking
full custody, then he wants nothing to do with the child.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah, yeah, cool, cool, sound like anyone else you know.
On May thirteenth, nineteen fifty six, Jane met Mickey Hargatea
at a nightclub in New York City. He was performing
there as a member of the chorus line, and he
was also working part time as an actor and a bodybuilder.

(22:16):
The two fell for each other hard and would get
married on January thirteenth, nineteen fifty six hager TEE h
A R G I T A y Okay. Pink was
Jane's favorite color, and since it was her second wedding,

(22:39):
she wore a pink dress and had pink champagne at
the reception. Nice Mickey and Jane would appear in multiple
films together, eventually performing as a team on stage shows,
even going on tour together. The couple would go on
to have two sons together, Mickey Junior and Zultan in

(23:00):
nineteen fifty it took me so I couldn't get through
the street fast.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
On Targetay, I'm sorry for you.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
In nineteen fifty seven, she received a Golden Globe Award
for the New Star of the Year in the Actress category.
Because that's how they used to do things, the New
Star of the Year, New Star of the Year.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
Yeah, I thought you said nude.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
And I was like, all right, sure for you. You
go girl. And she would go on to perform in
dozens of films and plays. In nineteen sixty, she received
a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Oh Jane
really did embrace pink as her signature color as well.

(23:49):
In November of nineteen fifty seven, she used her inheritance
money that she got from when her grandmother passed to
buy a forty room Mediterranean style mansion in Los Angeles.
Painting at pink and dubbing at her pink Palace. She
had the house painted pink with cue bids, surrounding it

(24:10):
by pink fluorescent lights, pink fur, and a pink heart
shaped bathtub and a fountain that spurted pink champagne at
all times. Don't get me wrong, pink is my favorite color.
But this is too much girl, Okay?

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Is her pink palace mansion on a TV show?

Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't think so, because it's basically like crumbling though.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
So there's this unless it find it. There's this TV
show about somebody who I can't remember who, this person
who goes around and sells or buys or something like
houses that used to be magnificent, you know what I mean.

(24:58):
Like I'm trying to I'm picturing the show, okay, and
this guy went to talk to this girl who bought
this house, and I feel like I remember her saying,
this used to be this person's house and.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
This was pink, and da da da. I feel like.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
This woman bought the pink palace and turned it into
not pink anymore, but and described about how it used
to be pink. But I can't remember the name of
the show. It's gonna drive me crazy. I'll eventually figure
it out, and either I'll send it to you and
you can add it to this episode, or I will
comment when this episode gets posted when I finally figured

(25:37):
it out.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
I love it when you comment on things. People are like,
see here exists, but also no, I googled it while
you were explaining that to me to see if it
wasn't anything else, because the last I heard it was
basically falling apart. Jane Mansfield's Pink Palace in Beverly Hills, California,

(25:58):
was famously decorated and painted pink by the actress in
nineteen fifty seven, but the mansion was demolished in two
thousand and two after being sold by get ready for it,
Engelbert humper Dick.

Speaker 3 (26:15):
No, it's not no, it's not no, No, that doesn't exist.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
That's not real, Engelbert humper Dic. Why this person's real?

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Nay.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
The whole time you're explaining that to me, I was like,
because I read it, What the fuck did you google him?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I did google him?

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Okay, you can't go any further. No spoilers.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Engelbert humper Dick is a part of this second episode.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
I don't know if it's going to take you to
the place of the internet with Jane Mansfield. No, I'm just.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
Looking at his photos. Apparently he was friends with Elvis.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Oh cool, good for him.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
He's like British Elvis. Good for Engelbert humber Dink. Wait
a minute, I'm sorry, I have to, I have.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
To tell me, tell me.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
The name Ingelbert Humperdink refers to both a British pop
singer and a German opera composer.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Of course it does.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
The British singer born Arnold George Dorsey adopted the stage
name of the famous composer. In the nineteen sixties and
nineteen seventies, he rose to international fame. It was a
fucking choice, dude. Okay, okay, I'm done. I'm done looking
at pictures of this strange man anyway.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
But I mean you know that there's only like one
out there other than you.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Yeah, now there's two.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
You're weirdo, good old Engelbert. Pink Palace, Yeah, the pink Palace.
And don't get me wrong, I love the color pink too,
but it's feeling a little too much. That as why
she was also known to love pink Lady drinks when
she was out and about. But that's not what we're

(28:11):
drinking today, because egg whites and beverages are gross. And
if that is your maybe I'm too scared to try it.
I just can't do.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
I have drank egg whites before my dad convinced. I'm
gonna say in get this to get more protein. In
convincing me how to get more protein, my dad convinced
me to buy a carton, a you know, small carton
of egg whites. I think it has like six eggs
in it or something egg whites. Uh. Squeeze sugar free

(28:45):
Hershey syrup into it, shake it up, drink it. It
tastes like a you who. Literally, it tastes like a
you who. I did. I drank it for more protein
one time, so feed more protein. There you go.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I'm like, I know, it sounds really good and gagging.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yes, I felt exactly the same until I was like,
you know what, I'm just going to try it, and
it tastes just like a you though it's really good.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
An in case anyone was also wondering totally not you
who related. On the day that we were recording this,
it is July tenth. It is National Cappy Barra Appreciation Day.
What so appreciate your local kapy bara?

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Okay, yeah, I appreciate them. They're really cute.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Got the pet one? She got to pet a baby
one like you bitch, so cute. I was wondering why
there was a little critter in my search bar at
the bottom of my computer, so I have to let
everyone know. Not a beaver as I thought it was
from the cartoon kapy Bara Appreciation Day.

Speaker 3 (29:50):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
They're just big, lovable of rodents, and I think they're
so cute. They're giant guinea pigs. No way I can
tell me how it was.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Jane Mansfield was absolutely gorgeous and became a sex symbol
of the nineteen fifties and sixties newspapers. Newspapers because they
were run by men, even went as far as posting
her body measurements in the paper. Also in nineteen sixty
she played the piano on Broadway for a period of

(30:25):
time and became known as the Cleavage Queen, which like
go Off oh Man. Things between Jane and Mickey started
to fizzle, and she began an affair with a man
named Enrico Bomba. He was an Italian producer, and Mickey
accused him of deliberately sabotaging their marriage. Mickey and Jane

(30:49):
would file for divorce in nineteen sixty two. Okay, shortly
after this, Jane discovered that she was pregnant again, and
with fear of being an unwed mother, ruining her career,
she convinced Mickey to announce that they were still married.
The two welcomed a daughter, Mariska, on January twenty third,

(31:11):
nineteen sixty four, and Marishka Barguta fun Fact also went
on to become an actress and starred in Law and Order.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Well, Marishka is a much better name than Zoltan, but
still Hargeta. She should have she should have took the
other last name.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Mickey and Jane tried to mend their relationship, but it
ended up fizzling. Sorry, but they ended up finalizing their
divorce less than a year later. Jane would marry yet again, though,
on September twenty fourth, to Matt Climber, an Italian born
film director. She has a thing for Italian men. I'm

(31:59):
sensing here Chamber twenty fourth, Yeah, also a great day.
They met during a stage production of Bus Stop in Yonkers,
New York City. The marriage wasn't happy for long, no,
as Matt micromanaged Jane's career and was allegedly abusive towards her.
The couple would have Jane's fifth child together, a son

(32:22):
named Antonio Raphael Climber, in October of nineteen sixty six,
but the couple filed for divorce not long after this.
Before their divorce in July, Jane started living with her attorney,
Sam Brody. She was trying to escape one abusive partner
but ended up right back in with another one. Sam

(32:45):
fought with Jane often and was rumed to their kids.
To her kids now, I could spend three episodes on
just Jane's career and another on the grotesque things that
men and women said about her and how she chose
to live her life. But at the end of the day,
she was a talented mother of five and an absolute haughtye.

(33:07):
There's nothing wrong with playing the part in a film
industry if it helps further your dream of acting that
and she was living the life of a woman in
the nineteen sixties. She was often compared to and pitted
against Marilyn Monroe, which queen.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Also, but not the cleavage queen.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Not the cleavage queen, different type of queen. I at
some point in my podcast Studio Slash Library, I picture
like a really dark green wall with like black and
whites of like Olive Thomas, Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield, Betty Page,
you know, like a little homage to the the curvy

(33:50):
queens that paved their way. I love old Hollywood. I
just think it would be cute with like an old
couch and like bookshelves. I'm picturing it.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
But what I think we need to take away is
that she was a legend in her industry, and her
work speaks for itself, and her death continues to save lives,
which brings us to the fun fact aspect of Jane's
legacy and why I chose to tell you about it today.
On June twenty eighth, nineteen sixty seven, Jane Mansfield was

(34:26):
in Mississippi for an engagement at the Gus Stephens Supper Club.
After midnight, herself, along with her attorney Sam Brody, and
a man named Ronald B. Harrison, who was nineteen years
old and a driver for the Gus Stevens Supper Club,
left to take Jane towards New Orleans, where she was

(34:47):
supposed to appear in a show the next day. In
the car were Jane's three youngest children and four chihuahuas
also belonging to me. She was the original Para Sultan
Let's fase it. At about two twenty five am on
June twenty ninth, their car tragically crashed while traveling into

(35:09):
the rear of a tractor trailer or an eighteen wheeler
that had slowed down to an approaching mosquito insecticide fog
spraying truck with a flashing red light, so you know
when you approach on work trucks and they're flashing their lights.
I felt like I had to include mosquito insecticide fog

(35:29):
spring truck because never in my life if I heard
that term. Yeah, this is an absolute tragedy, but the
fact that that is what caused it wild. The three
adults in the front seat and two of the dogs
sadly died instantly when the car was pulled underneath the trailer.

(35:51):
The children who were asleep in the rear seat survived
with minor injuries, thankfully because they were laying low. They
were rushed to to Aukshur Foundation Hospital in Louisiana, where
Mickey Hargatea arrived to get his children. After her death,
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommended requiring an under

(36:15):
ride guard or a strong metal bar made of steel
tubing on all tractor trailers, including reflective strips for better visibility,
so that nothing like this ever happens again. In America,
the underride guard is also known as a Mansfield bar.

(36:36):
Her death shocked her fans, who were left devastated by
the loss, and Jane was just thirty four years old
and left behind five children. Her kids went to live
with their respective fathers following her death, and in nineteen
sixty eight, the Hollywood Publicist Guild declared a Jane Mansfield
Award would be given each year to the actress who

(36:58):
received the most exposed posure and publicity in her honor.
And the reason I touched on her legacy as well
is because her youngest daughter, Marika, was just three years
old when she died, and recently released an HBO documentary
in June that was beautifully done called My Mom Jane,

(37:19):
or she reconnects with her siblings and learns more about
her mom and her legacy because she was so young
when she died, so she never really got that connection.
And I just it was really it made me cry.
It was more like about them as a family than
Jane's life. But it was just really beautiful to kind
of see that side because she was painted as this

(37:40):
ditsy Hollywood blonde. You know how the tragedy of Marilyn Monroe,
like being incredibly smart but being forced to play this part.
And yeah, I get that she like remarried and had
a bunch of kids and stuff, but you know, people
are hurtful and rude about people's lifestyle else. But also

(38:01):
when you think about it, it's like, even when I
was writing these notes, I was like, yeah, that's okay, girl,
slow down. But then also like she's in the sixties,
Like you can't be a mom of five kids and
try and make a name for yourself and be single,
which is kind of fucked up. Yeah, because knowing if
she lived today, she would have done that. So I

(38:21):
just think not, I don't know that for sure, but
I assume she would have. She just seemed like a
really strong and independent lady. And her death was really sad,
you know, the death like the Hollywood trope of fascinations
of people dying young. Yeah, And while her story doesn't
fit my fascination of Hollywood actresses dying in mysterious ways,

(38:43):
I thought it was a really good story for today
because it surrounded a fun fact, which was that that
is called a Mansfield bar, So that is so interesting.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
I am terrified of semis I am very thankful that
the Mansfield bar exists. Sucks that that had to happen
for it to come about, but you know, things happen
and we make the best of them.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
So yeah, And I just think it's cool that so
much was pushed forward afterwards in terms of safety, because yeah,
if you were traveling down a foggy, dark highway and
a truck in front of you slowed down, you wouldn't
see them, right, And if you're driving in a small car, yeah,
that is what happens. And yeah, that is why I'm
also terrified of semi trucks.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
So yeah. Also bonus fun fact, silver is the most
dangerous vehicle color in general because it's hard to see
at night and also in bright sunshine. So whether at
night or in bright light, it's hard to see. Don't
buy a silver car. Someone might run into you and get.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Your lights and shit fixed the amount of people that
I see driving around without like break lights that are
working or.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Like, oh my god, I just cannot stand when people
don't have working dress with me out it ugh, it
sent okay, Well, it also.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Reminds me of bridesmaid problem. But I thought that the
story was really interesting, not really sure what category of
ours it fits, and I would say murderless because people died,
but no one was murdered. So that's my murderless story
for you today, guys. I hope you enjoyed it. I
would highly encourage that, if you guys have HBO or

(40:24):
Amazon Prime, that you go and watch the documentary. It
was really literally twelve days ago. I had actually done
these notes and then saw that she had that documentary
when I was researching it, and I was like, oh shit.
So I went and watched it and cried.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
It was cool watching like old videos of her as well. Ye,
She's just like yeah. Anyways, So I went the creepy,
creepy history route for you all today, and I hope
you enjoyed it. It was great, And again, take care
of yourselves, launch your inner pink if you feel so inclined,
and definitely check out that documentary. If you also love

(41:05):
your mom and need a good cry that said, do
you have anything that will not make us cry? Anything happy?
Any final thoughts, any anything you would like to share
for the peeps.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
I don't know if this matters to anyone at all,
but I had a new client the other day at
my spa and she left me a personal message that
was just so sweet and I'll just read it because
why not if it ever comes out, she said, I

(41:43):
wanted to tell you, girl, I loved it. It was
so relaxing and comfy, and your whole setup is top tier.
I will definitely be back and I'll recommend whoever I
can I do hair, so if I hear anyone mention it,
I will for sure send them your way. And he
was so sweet and it made me so happy.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Oh, that is so sweet. And would you figure out
if she was a listener or just a local person.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
I'm just a local person.

Speaker 1 (42:09):
It'd be weird if it was a listener, I feel like.
But yeah, for our listeners that don't follow us on
social media, though, please go in follow Sierra's amazing page.
Even if you can't live there and get a facial
from her, you can get the soothing vibes and the
skincare tips. Still. Yeah, I mean that's at least what

(42:32):
I rely on because I am very jealous every time
I see her post a video of her giving a facial.
I'm just like, it looks so dewey and I'm jealous,
see as my skin is over here profusely sweating from
the Canadian heat lack of acy. My something happy is

(42:55):
why is this so hard? Oh? That I've been very
productive this week in terms of my workouts, podcasts, and
home chores, which is sometimes as a struggle for me
with my mental health and being a neurospicy gal. I've
actually on top of all my shit this week, and

(43:16):
I'm very proud of myself. It is the first week
that I have felt put together since I've started my
new job and on my second show, so it's nice
to feel back in the rhythm of things and not
feel so chaotic. And our friends Nick Ammel maybe you've

(43:36):
heard of him, of the Tennis podcast and I've been
chatting a little bit lately, which has been nice because
he's been on hiatus, and he wanted me to say hi.
Those are my two happy things.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Too happy to say hi to me specifically, Yeah, oh
I thought you listener.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
No, that's weird case they all want to know.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Yeah, well that's good. I miss and the show I
still pay for it. You know, nothing's happening.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
But yeah, that is all I have for you today. Guys.
I hope you enjoyed this week's episode. If you like
the show, please remember to leave us five stars wherever
you are listening now. It really is the best way
to spread the word. That and we will be back
next week with Sierra's episode. Not sure what she's got
going on for us, but in the meantime, based on

(44:28):
her face, I'm not sure if she.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
Does there, I have an idea, I just don't know
where it falls.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
It's a fun game we're playing here, guys, game we're playing.
Let us know if you're enjoying it, and your feedback
is always important. And if you have a case that
you specifically want us to cover. That is another benefit
of us doing this format is we can just slip
it right in. So oh that sounded gross, I'm sorry.
Please slip into our DMS and tell us what story

(44:57):
you would like us to cover. I'm not sorry for that,
And in the meantime, keep it twisted, Twisted, Twisted, and
Uncorked is hosted and produced by Cierra Zorn and Alicia Watson.
If you like the show, don't forget to leave a
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It really is the best way to spread the word.
You can check out All Things Twisted on our website

(45:19):
Twisted and Uncorked dot com, and we will see you
next Tuesday for a brand new episode
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